Faculty Members and StaffWe are a diverse and international group of scholars. As a collegial unit, we thrive on collaborative and innovative teaching and support each others' impressive publication records.

Our research, which is focused on the modern era, links the study of the past with vital social and political issues of today: indigenous rights, gender equality, the environment, education, modern slavery, citizenship and issues of law and justice.

Our active research agenda connects us and our students to an international community of academic and public historians in many fields, to which students can contribute by participating in our conferences, workshops, and publishing research via Scholarship@Western and our undergraduate research journal Liberated Arts.

Courses TaughtMajor Issues in World History (1801E)
China: Tradition and Transformation (2603E)
Ten Days That Shook the World (2702E)
Chinese Imperial Law (3615F/G)
Political Assassination, 1900-2000 (3706E)
War & Memory in Modern East Asia (4605E)
Sex, Law and Society in Imperial China (4606F/G)Dr. Fang's Research, Teaching and Publications

Courses TaughtMajor Issues in World History (1801E)
Precolonial Africa (2602F/G)
European Imperialism in Africa, 1830-1994 (2604F/G)
Patterns and Perspectives in World History (2701E)
Gender and Modern Europe (2810F/G)
Current Crises in Historical Perspective (3705E)
European Imperialism (4702F/G)
Masculinity and Modern History (4802F/G)

Courses TaughtHistory of the United States, 1607-present (2301E)
Enlightenment in the Atlantic World (2704E)
African American History (3311F/3313G)
The Historian's Craft (3801E)
American Dreams: Radicals and Reformers from the City on a Hill to Herland (4305E)

Timothy Compeau, Ph.D. (Western). Colonial North America and Atlantic World. Compeau's dissertation explores the loyalist experience in the American Revolution through the context of eighteenth century honour culture. He is also engaged in a variety of public history projects, including an exploration of the uses of augmented reality in teaching history.
Email: tcompeau@uwo.ca
Office location: HUC A217

Douglas Leighton, Ph.D. (U.W.O.) Professor Emertius.
Canadian History. Dr. Leighton's research interests include: 19th-century Indian policy in the Canadas, Frontier families and communities in the late 18th-century Great Lakes region, The role of the churches in the social formation of Upper Canada/Canada West, The regional history of the automobile's impact.

Colin Read, Ph.D. (Toronto), Professor Emertius, Canada, Upper Canada. Dr. Read has published extensively on the Rebellions of 1837 in the Canadas and is currently researching Loyalism in Norfolk County.
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